*Lil Wayne opened up about some of his wild encounters with law enforcement on the latest episode of Apple Music’s Young Money Radio.
His comments come as the national conversation about race relations in America continue, amid the killing of George Floyd while in police custody.Â
“My life was saved when I was young,” he shared with listeners, per Billboard. “I was 12 or something, I think. Shot myself. I was saved by a white cop, Uncle Bob. So you have to understand … you have to understand the way I view police, period. I was saved by a white cop.”
Adding, “There was a bunch of black cops jumped over me when they saw me at that door, laying on the floor with that hole in my chest. He refused to. Those black cops jumped over me, and ran through the crib, and said, ‘We found the gun, we found this, we found that.’ He said, ‘I found this baby on this floor. I need to get to a hospital.’ He didn’t wait for an ambulance. He took his car. He made somebody drive it, and he made sure that I lived.”
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Lil Wayne also touched on the militarized police force in his hometown.Â
“I’m from New Orleans, 17th and High Grove. We have a thing called Jump Out Boys, uptown New Orleans. That’s the police,” he explained on Young Money Radio. “They pull up on you, they already got their door cracked, they already got the door. That’s why we call them Jump Out Boys, because you might think that’s just a police car driving up the block — nah, they about to stop, boom. It look like, you ever seen a clown car — when a clown pull up in a small car and 30 of them get out the car, like 30 clowns. That’s how it be, like one small police car pull up, but they got both doors cracked on both sides. Bop, soon as they stop, bop, they jump out. So many of them jump out, and they ain’t coming running up to you to ask you what’s your name and how you doing and how’s your day. No, they not coming around after you for that. They don’t have the door cracked for nothing. They’re not driving into a war or nothing, they’re just driving into the neighborhood. Why their doors need to be cracked, I’m not sure. That’s what we grew up going through, things like that.”
The hip-hop star then recalled the cops handled his recent experience with shady pilot.Â
“A couple days ago I’m on my plane, private plane, mind you, thank God,” the rapper said. “I spent so much for that, and I work hard for what I’m able to spend on that. Now I had a pilot, [and] I pay my pilots, obviously — it’s a private plane. So I had a situation on my plane. Pilot so happens to be Caucasian. I go up there to talk to him. He tells me, ‘Get out of the aisle and go back to your seat.’ He must have thought he was flying United Airlines or something, he must have forgot that that was my plane. He must have forgot. I think what happened is he did forget, he forgot what was going on. You know what happened, though? He had police waiting for me when we landed, waiting for my ass. Thank God the police, they didn’t forget what was going on, and they let me go ahead home.”
“So … before you want to speculate about anything, understand that I go through situations, too, and we all got our situations, so don’t judge no one for no reason, for how or whatever, don’t judge. Do you. Do you. Help out in any kind of way you want to help out, any kind of way you can,” said Lil Wayne.
Watch the Young Money Radio clip above.
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